Quotes About Originality

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

Most people feel like they're out of step, so just have the conviction to go your own way.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna do it better. I'm absolutely convinced of that.

Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

I don't care for brands. I'm more of a boutique shopper because the things I will find there are unique, and there won't be any copies.

Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.